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pacman128
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Do you have a source for this? I thought they were a direct prediction of GR and this link says the same:
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bead_argument
auntienomen
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You can read about it in Abraham Pais' scientific biography of Einstein, _Subtle is the Lord_.
pacman128
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I don't have a copy of that book, but the abstract of this paper from 1937, co-authored by Einstein, claims that gravitational waves are a prediction of GR:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00160...
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